Puppet Master: Doktor Death

The film opens with Max (Bill D. Russell) dying from a heart attack brought on by a dream with Doktor Death puppet images. As he is being wheeled out we are introduced to the April, the final girl (Jenny Boswell) who is a new caregiver at Shady Oaks Senior Living. While going through Max's belongings the caregivers find a doll/puppet which Flynn (Zach Zebrowski) takes. It isn't long before the doll shows up randomly in other rooms, killing folks and being able to go inside their bodies and control their movement like the humans are the puppets. This film connects the retro puppet master film from WWII to whatever the next one is going to be. Like most "linkage" films it is not as good as the two films it will link. Guide: F-word. No sex. Nudity (Emily Sue Bengtson)

I must admit that I was actually harboring some expectations to the 2022 addition to the "Puppet Master" franchise. Why? Well, I figured that it was a pretty new movie, so perhaps they upped their game somewhat. I hadn't actually heard about "Puppet Master: Doktor Death" prior to watching it as part of a "Puppet Master" movie marathon. Director Dave Parker managed to deliver a watchable movie, for sure. But "Puppet Master: Doktor Death" was hardly the pinnacle of the franchise. The storyline in this 2022 movie was adequate. There wasn't really anything outstanding to be experienced, but it made for a watchable enough movie. And the movie just ended very abruptly. Sure, it is so the cards are dealt for a follow-up movie, of course. But a more satisfying ending would have been preferable. I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list in "Puppet Master: Doktor Death". The acting performances in the movie were actually fair enough, especially in comparison as to what was performed in the "Axis" trilogy of the "Puppet Master" franchise. Visually then "Puppet Master: Doktor Death" was quite okay. Nothing outstanding for a horror movie, sure. But the special effects served the movie well enough. My rating of "Puppet Master: Doktor Death" lands on a four out of ten stars. There simply wasn't enough murderous dolls in the movie.

I've been a fan of the puppet master franchise since I was a kid, and they've always been low budget and a little campy, which is half the charm. Unfortunately this iteration takes this to the extreme and totally ruins what could've been a fun film to watch. From the outset the camera work is shocking, jutters when panning across scene and hardly ever square on, leaving you struggling to focus. The music is pretty much constant in every scene which is really off putting, especially when it's just dialogue and no action. The acting is absolutely terrible, I've seen better at the local amateur dramatic society and school performances, it's as if the just don't care. The special effects are just as bad, nothing looking the slightest bit real and difficult to watch because of the quality. This is one of the few films I wish I'd never have watched. Don't waste your time with this one, I'd burn all copies and erase it from existence.

Loving some of these newer Full moon horror movies. The darker trippy stuff like Scream of the Blind Dead and It Knows you're Alone, William Butler's Baby Oopsie movies and the Resonator saga and now this New Puppet Master movie, which is honestly one of the best ones I've seen in years. It's a stand alone slasher movie and you don't have to have seen the others to get into it. This is what fans want not those sex comedies and credit director Dave Parker for delivering a serious and fast paced horror film, with soooooo much blood and an incredible and freaky ending. Watched this on Full Moon Features.

I must admit that I was actually harboring some expectations to the 2022 addition to the "Puppet Master" franchise. Why? Well, I figured that it was a pretty new movie, so perhaps they upped their game somewhat. I hadn't actually heard about "Puppet Master: Doktor Death" prior to watching it as part of a "Puppet Master" movie marathon. Director Dave Parker managed to deliver a watchable movie, for sure. But "Puppet Master: Doktor Death" was hardly the pinnacle of the franchise. The storyline in this 2022 movie was adequate. There wasn't really anything outstanding to be experienced, but it made for a watchable enough movie. And the movie just ended very abruptly. Sure, it is so the cards are dealt for a follow-up movie, of course. But a more satisfying ending would have been preferable. I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list in "Puppet Master: Doktor Death". The acting performances in the movie were actually fair enough, especially in comparison as to what was performed in the "Axis" trilogy of the "Puppet Master" franchise. Visually then "Puppet Master: Doktor Death" was quite okay. Nothing outstanding for a horror movie, sure. But the special effects served the movie well enough. My rating of "Puppet Master: Doktor Death" lands on a four out of ten stars. There simply wasn't enough murderous dolls in the movie.

The film opens with Max (Bill D. Russell) dying from a heart attack brought on by a dream with Doktor Death puppet images. As he is being wheeled out we are introduced to the April, the final girl (Jenny Boswell) who is a new caregiver at Shady Oaks Senior Living. While going through Max's belongings the caregivers find a doll/puppet which Flynn (Zach Zebrowski) takes. It isn't long before the doll shows up randomly in other rooms, killing folks and being able to go inside their bodies and control their movement like the humans are the puppets. This film connects the retro puppet master film from WWII to whatever the next one is going to be. Like most "linkage" films it is not as good as the two films it will link. Guide: F-word. No sex. Nudity (Emily Sue Bengtson)

I've been a fan of the puppet master franchise since I was a kid, and they've always been low budget and a little campy, which is half the charm. Unfortunately this iteration takes this to the extreme and totally ruins what could've been a fun film to watch. From the outset the camera work is shocking, jutters when panning across scene and hardly ever square on, leaving you struggling to focus. The music is pretty much constant in every scene which is really off putting, especially when it's just dialogue and no action. The acting is absolutely terrible, I've seen better at the local amateur dramatic society and school performances, it's as if the just don't care. The special effects are just as bad, nothing looking the slightest bit real and difficult to watch because of the quality. This is one of the few films I wish I'd never have watched. Don't waste your time with this one, I'd burn all copies and erase it from existence.

Loving some of these newer Full moon horror movies. The darker trippy stuff like Scream of the Blind Dead and It Knows you're Alone, William Butler's Baby Oopsie movies and the Resonator saga and now this New Puppet Master movie, which is honestly one of the best ones I've seen in years. It's a stand alone slasher movie and you don't have to have seen the others to get into it. This is what fans want not those sex comedies and credit director Dave Parker for delivering a serious and fast paced horror film, with soooooo much blood and an incredible and freaky ending. Watched this on Full Moon Features.

I'm a bit of a fan of the Puppet Master movies and can usually find something fun or intereting about all of them. Except this one. It's a mess. AND messy. Not gory. Messy as in poorly conceived, realized and directed. And the puppet becomes a full grown human puppet at one point, confusing the heck out of me. But the part that really solidifed how bad this movie is was the fact that it literally looks like it was mde for under a thousand bucks. It has a very strange look to it, almost as if all the sets are CGI and not really there. The color is all muted or filtered so that it's fake looking. Hard to explain, but it was very unsettling and made the movie hard to concentrate on. Better luck next time.